
Kaki King

Photo by Sham Hinchey & Marzia Messina Lo
Overview
Brooklyn-based guitar-iconoclast KAKI KING will be performing in select cities around the northeast in the summer of 2021, in her first live-audiences shows since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Bringing along a few of her finest instruments, Kaki King will play a selection of songs from her 20-plus year career as well as new material from her most recent album, Modern Yesterdays (released on Cantaloupe Music).Â
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Kaki King
Composer and musician Kaki King is considered one of the world’s greatest living guitarists. She is known both for her technical mastery and for her constant quest to push the boundaries of the instrument. Hailed by Rolling Stone as “a genre unto herself,” Kaki has released 9 albums and toured extensively at theaters, venues, and festivals world-wide. She has created music for celebrated film and TV soundtracks, including “August Rush” and “Into the Wild”, for which received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Score. She has performed with symphonies and chamber ensembles, led educational initiatives, and helmed theater and performance projects such as the acclaimed The Neck is a Bridge to the Body (2014), DATA NOT FOUND (2019), and Modern Yesterday's (2020).
Event Sponsors
Theater Programming supported in part by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Barbara Slifka, The Schaffner Family Foundation, Brown Harris Stevens, Michael Balmuth, Lang Insurance, and funding from The Ellen and James S. Marcus Endowment for Musical Programming and The Melville Straus Family Endowment
John Drew Backyard Theater
Special thanks to Marty and Michele Cohen, Ben Krupinski Builder, Hollander Design, and Groundworks LandscapingÂ
All Musical Programming supported in part by The Ellen and James S. Marcus Endowment for Musical ProgrammingÂ
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Special thanks to Marty and Michele Cohen, Ben Krupinski Builder, Hollander Design, and Groundworks LandscapingÂ